Sir John Soane's Museum
Concise catalogue of drawings

RA Lecture Drawings of Roman houses:
1-4 POMPEII (Italy): Roman villa
1-2 Plans
3-4 Sections
5 POMPEII (Italy): Temple of Isis
Plan
6-9 TIVOLI (Italy): Hadrian's Villa
Part plans, after Piranesi
10-13 LAURENTINUM (Italy):
Pliny's villa, reconstruction of
10 Plan, after Scamozzi
11 Section, after Scamozzi
12 Plan, after Fossati
13 Elevation, after Stevens
14 ROME: Doumus Augustiana
Plan
15 Plan of a Grecian house, from Palladio,
Book II, plate 31
16 Plan of a Roman house, from Palladio,
Book II, plate 25

RA Lecture Drawings of Triumphal Arches:
1-2 ROME: Arch of Constantine
1 View
2 Elevation
3 ROME: Arch of Septimius Severus
View
4 ROME: Arch of Titus
Elevation
5 ROME: Porta Maggiore
View
6 BENEVENTUM (Italy): Arch of Trajan
Elevation
7 AOSTA (Italy): Triumphal Arch
View

RA Lecture Drawings of Basilicas, Porticoes & Fora:
1-2 ROME: Portico of Pompey
Plan (after Serlio) & perspective of restoration
3-6 ROME: Portico of Octavia
Plans, elevations & section
7 ROME: Curia Hostilia, Forum
View, after Piranesi
8 ROME: Forum of Nerva
Part elevation
9-13 ROME: Basilica of Constantine (Basilica of Maxentius)
Plan & views
14 Composition, after Piranesi
Entrance to a Temple with an Avenue of
Lions

RA Lecture Drawings of Roman baths:
1-5 ROME: Baths of Diocletian
1 Plan
2-3 Sections
4 Interior perspective
5 Church of S. Maria degli Angeli (In the tepidarium of the Baths of
Diocletian as altered by Michelangelo)
Internal elevation
6-7 ROME: Temple of Minerva Medica
Plan & perspective

RA Lecture Drawings of Columns & Aqueducts:
1 ROME: Michelangelo's restoration of the Rostral column dedicated to Duilius
set in an imaginary landscape
Perspective
2-3 ROME: Trajan's Column
2 Elevation
3 Horizontal sections to show the inside staircase, after Piranesi
4 ROME: Antonine Column
Elevation
5 SUNETO (Sicily): Aqueduct & Bridge
View
6 LONDON: Water pipes at Bagnigge Wells
View, drawn by Basevi, 1815

RA Lecture Drawings of timber & stone bridges:
1 View of Caesar's Bridge over the Rhine
(reconstruction from his description in his
Commentaries)
2 SCHWANDEN [Schnauden] (Switzerland): Wooden bridge
View
Insc: verso: C[harles] T[yrell]. Bridge of Schwanden 3
M from Glaris, 11th March 1814
3 NÄFELS (Switzerland): Wooden bridge
View
4 REICHENAU (Switzerland): Wooden bridge
View
5 ZIEGELBRÜCKE (Switzerland): Wooden bridge
View
6 Elevation & plan of London Bridge in 1209
d: 6 May 1814
7 PONTYPRIDD (Glam):
View of the bridge over the Taff
8 BRIOUDE (Auvergen, France): Bridge over the Allier
Elevation
9-11 Drawings by the Soane office, & Sandby, of
Thomas Sandby's Bridge of Magnificence
9 Plan & elevation of buildings on the
Embankment adjoining the Bridge &
elevation of the Bridge
d: Oct 3 1805
10 Thomas Sandby (1721-1798)
Perspective
s & d: Thomas Sandby 1793
11 Frontal perspective
12 Perspective of Sir John Soane's 1776 design
for a Triumphal Bridge
13 Comparative elevations of Trajan's bridge
over the Danube & Old Westminster Bridge
14 LONDON: Westminster & Blackfriars bridges
Comparative elevations
15 PARIS: Pont de Neuilly
Elevation

RA Lecture Drawings of gardens:
1 POMPEII (Italy): Labyrinth
Plan
2-3 ROME: Farnese Gardens, Palatine Hill
Views
4 ROME: Villa Medici
View
5 HERRENHAUSEN, Hanover (Germany):
Plan of His Majesty's garden
6 View of a rocky stream, with a cascade
7 Bird's-eye view of a Dutch garden
8 Perspective of the Aviary of Varro,
reconstructed from the description in Pliny

RA Lecture Drawings of the Church of St Peter, Rome:
1 Copy of plan by Bramante
s & d: Tyrell Aug 1811
2 Copy of plan by Peruzzi
3 Copy of plan by Michelangelo
4 Plan as executed
5 Copy of plan by Fontana
6 Section through Dome
7 Perspective of Bernini's Scala Regia
8 Elevation of Bernini's Baldachino, after de Rossi
9-10 Elevation of parts of exterior
11 Elevation of part of the Entrance front with
proposed campanile by Bernini
12 Elevation of the façade without Bernini's
campanile
13-15 Unidentified Italian artist
Hand-coloured engravings:
13 View of interior
14 View of exterior, E end
15 View showing Bernini colonnades, Piazza &
façade

RA Lecture Drawings of Renaissance churches:
1 ROME: S. Maria Maggiore
Survey plan (by Soane), 1778
2-4 ROME: S. Paolo fuori le mura
2 Perspective, after Piranesi
d: 20 Dec 1811
3 Plan
4 Plan
d: 23 Sept 1819
5 FLORENCE: S. Maria del Fiore
Plan & section through Dome & E end
6 FLORENCE: S. Spirito
Plan & section
7 Plan of an unidentified Italian church
8-10 ROME: S. Pietro in Montorio (Bramante's Tempietto)
8 Plan
s & d: Tyrell 8 Aug 1811
9 Plan, elevation & section
d: 14 March 1806
10 Elevation
11 MANTUA (Italy): S. Andrea
Plan & section
12 RIMINI (Italy): S. Francesco
Plan & elevation of part of the façade
13 Plan of an unidentified church
14 VENICE: S. Marco
Plan
15 CONSTANTINOPLE: S. Sophia
Plan
Insc: Plan of the Church of S^ta Sophia
d: 2 Aug 1806

RA Lecture Drawings of Baroque churches:
1 ROME: Church of the Chartreux (portion of
the Baths of Diocletian)
Perspective of interior
2-3 ROME: S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
2 Plan
3 Elevation
d: 4 Nov 1814
4-5 VIENNA: Karlskirche, 1716-37 (J. B. Fischer von Erlach)
4 Plan
Insc: S^t Carlo at Vienna
5 Elevation
s & d: Basevi/29 May 1813
6-7 ARICCIA (Italy): S. Maria dell'Assunzione (Bernini)
6 Plan, after de Rossi
7 Section, after de Rossi
d: 26 Oct 1816
8 Interior perspective of a typical Italian church
9 ROME: S. Susanna
Elevation
10 ROME: S. Giovanni in Laterano (as altered by
Borromini)
Elevation of part of nave
Insc: church of S^t John in the Lateran
d: 7 Feb 1817